Thanks for that post, Boneshaker looks awesome! Totally added to my Amazon wishlist.
And on a different note, have you heard about The Prisoner remake? I'm a little scared and a little excited. I worry it will not be able to attain the all-encompassing surreality of the original and that they will try to modernize it by throwing in unnecessary explosions and fluffing up the storyline. But in any case, it's an AMC thing and supposedly airs in November. They cast Sir Ian McKellen as No. 2, so that gives me hope.
Which reminds me, I really need to buy The Prisoner on DVD because I'm still watching my tapes recorded off PBS more than a decade ago.

A few months ago, I got an ARC of my friend Cherie's forthcoming Steampunk book, Boneshaker. I've raved about it all over the place, so allow me to just sum up without repeating myself too much: it's awesome. I loved everything about it, and I can't wait for it to come out so the rest of the wor...